The pic I uploaded is just a compilation of uploaded snippets on the King of Ooo tumbler, but I liked how they looked arranged like this.

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    No.

    Huntress is the forest wizard that ends up being Finns final and off/on long-term life partner.

    The second season of Fionna and Cake is all about her and Finn. This is from that. (The first season is all about Simon and Betty.)

    Fionna and Cake is art. If you dismissed it like I did thinking it was “just” a spin off, watch it. It takes the world and themes of AT and combines them with genuine heartfelt writing aimed at the fans who have become adults.

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      Man, I was a few episodes into Season 2 of F&C and I made the mistake of watching a season 2 episode of the original series. It was a breath of fresh air. It was the sillyness that got me into AT, and it’s hit me how much that’s missing in the newer stuff.
      I don’t know much about how production worked, but I suspect it’s a Pendleton Ward vs. Adam Muto thing.

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        FC isn’t trying to be AT though. That’s why it works.

        The universe, and writing, has matured with the fans. So many shows like this use a spin-off as a excuse to reset that and appeal primarily and often only to kids again.

        An example that comes to mind is Clone Wars season 7 leading into Star Wars Rebels, and the tonal shift is just unbearable.

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          FC isn’t trying to be AT though. That’s why it works.

          I agree, I guess I’m just lamenting that it doesn’t work as well for me.

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        I think it does make sense in its transition from the last seasons of the original series. Those weren’t that silly either. You really cannot compare it to the beginning of AT.

        And that series transitioned really slowly over the seasons from silly stories to the world-ending storytelling we got at the end.

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          It’s definitely continuous in tone with the last seasons of AT, which is why I think it’s an Adam Muto thing. But it feels like it’s turned into Doctor Who. (Or what I imagine Doctor Who to be now; I haven’t actually watched in a while.) Like, it’s fine when you have a world with no rules as to what’s possible (because of magic and/or advanced science) if that world is silly, but it makes it hard to generate dramatic stakes if every obstacle is magic bullshit and every solution is also magic bullshit.

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        Huntress only appears in a couple episodes of AT proper. Her main appearance is the one in Fionna and Cake.

        You don’t really need to have seen every episode of AT to enjoy FC.